Accounting apparatus.



E. ZIPPER.

ACCOUNTING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB I5 1914'.

1,234,535 1. Patented July 31, 1917.

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ACCOUNTING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 18. 914.

Patented July 31, 1917.

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ACCOUNTING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 18. 1914.

1,234,851. Patented July 31, 1917.

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ACCOUNTING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 18. 1914.

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Patented July 31, 1917.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

mnr. ZIPPER, 0F VIENNA, AUSTRIA, ASSIGNOB TO THE FIRM OF ABIBEI'I'S- UND LOHNVEBBECHNER-GESELLSCHAFT M. B. H., O! VIENNA, AUSTRIA.

ACCOUNTING APPARATUS.

Application filed February 18, 1914. Serial No. 819,580.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it'known that I, EMIL ZIPPER, subject of the Emperor of Austria, residing at V1- enna, Austria, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Accounting Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

Well known apparatus for counting and recording or registering units of work or operations performed by a machine, and the amounts of wages corresponding to the same, are driven from a continuously moving part of the machine and have therefore the drawback that they do not always record units of work or operations really performed, but in case of an idle running of the machine, count and register the movements of the mav chine corresponding to the units of work or working operations. The drawback in question is noticed for instance in counting and registerin devices connected to the cylinder spind e or any other spindle of power looms whenever for some reason the loom is working idly, that is to say, without shuttles, and all the parts of the loom make movements corresponding to a working operation or pick, without however a weft thread being introduced. The pick counter records therefore the movements corresponding to the working operations or units of work, but not to the units of work actually performed, that is to say, to the picks made. The same objection applies to registering and counting devices connected in the hitherto usual manner to other machines such as stamping or punching machines, nailing ma chines and the like. When the machine is running idly, these devices count and register, not the units of work and working operations really performed, but movements of the machine corresponding to the same.

This invention relates to a. counting and registering apparatus for units of work or.

working operations performed and for the amounts of wages corresponding to the only when a working operation is really performed, or a unit of work completed, into a pos tion producing an advance of the countmg mechanism while, when the machlne is running idly, the above mentioned feed part is in an inoperative position and does not operate the counting mechanisms.

This invention further relates to simplifications and improvements in the counting mechanisms proper and their driving parts.

By way of example, a counting and registering device according to this invention, intended for use on power looms, is represented in the accompanying drawings. The same device can be however connected, with slight alterations of the driving parts, to any other machine in which wages are calculated in accordance with the number of working operations or units of work performed. In a loom, wages are preferably calculated by the number of picks. As a unit of work must be therefore considered one pick or a number (100 or 1000) of such picks.

Figure 1 of the drawings shows the drive of a counting and registering device applied to a loom, in side elevation or in section on line AA of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 shows the drive in back view, that is to say, seen from a point behind the lay or batten. Fig. 3 is, on an enlarged scale, a section on line B-B of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 shows the counting and registering device in front elevation. Fig. 5 is a plan of the device, the wage rate disk being shown partly in section. Fig. 6 is a section on line 0-6 of Fig. 4., looking in the direction of the arrow D of Fig. 4, some of the parts situated in front of the plane of section, being indicated by chain-dotted lines. Fig. 7 is a section on line E-E of Fig.5, looking in the direction of the arrow F, Fig. 5.

The counting and registering device proper (Figs. 4-7) is provided with a ratchet wheel 3 mounted on a pin 2 rotatably supported in the side wall 1 of the frame of the apparatus (Figs. 1-3). This ratchet wheel 3 has 25 teeth and is advanced to the extent of one tooth at each second unit of work, that is to say, at each second pick in the example illustrated.

On the rear wall of the shuttle box a (Fig. 1) of the lay b, is rotatably supported in two lugs c, a short spindle 03 provided Patented July 31, 1917.

' of which is rotatably mounted in a pawl support 7. The pawl support 7 is rotatably mounted, on two pins f (Fig. 2), in the frame 1 of the counting and registering device proper, and carries a pawl g engaging intermittently with the ratchet wheel 3. The rod 6 participates therefore in the oscillating movement of the lay b, and as its xis of rotation f f does not coincide with the axis of the lay, its upper end moves a little in the hole d.

The awl g is mounted in a longitudinally ad justable manner in a hollow portion or casing f of the pawl support or holder f (Fig. 3) and is rovided with a ring it controlled by a sprmg z, the other end of which rests against the cover 7' of the casing.

f. The spring 2' has the tendency to bring the pawl 9 into engagement with the teeth of the ratchet wheel 3. The casing f is provided with a recess 70, through which a lever m projects into the interior of the casing F. The said lever on is secured to the rod 6 near its lower end and normally engages under the ring it of the pawl 9, thus locking the latter in a position in which its engagement end is out of reach of the teeth .of the ratchet wheel 3. If the lay b oscillates, when the pawl g is in such position, the rod e, the pawl holder f and the pawl 9 will oscillate therefore about the axis f-f, and the pawl 9 will remain inoperative and will not advance the wheel 3. In order to advance the wheel 3, the pawl 9 must be released by the lever m, so that 1t can engage with the teeth of the ratchet wheel 3. The release of the pawl g iseffected by the rod 6 turning a little about its axis, the locking lever m bein thus turned out of the position shown-in ig. 3.

The turning of the rod e and of the locking lever m, and the consequent release of the pawl g, are effected according to this invention by the shuttle box tongue 7 (Figs. 1 and 2) which, whenever the shuttle enters the shuttle box a and introduces the weft thread, is forced out of the shuttle box a by the shuttle.

Near-the upper end of the rod e, opposite the tongue 11. of the shuttle box, is secured a lever 11, the free end of which engages with the back of the tongue n of the shuttle,

. .box. A spring 9 secured to the lay 72, keeps the lever p in engagement with the tongue at of the shuttle box.

When the shuttle, after the introduction of a weft thread, enters the shuttle box a, it forces the tongue 11. outwardly and the said tongue then turns the lever p and the rod e, in opposition to the action of the spring 9, about the axis of the rod e and by means of the above parts, withdraws the locking lever m from the recess of the casin F. Consequently, the locking lever m re eases the pawl g which, under the action of the spring 2', engages with the ratchet wheel 3. All this takes place when the lay b is in the rear dead center position, or close to the same. If the lay b swings forward (arrow G, Fig. 1), the pawl 9 will advance the wheel 3 to the extent of one tooth. If the loom is running idly, no shuttle entering the shuttle box a, the locking lever m will remain inlocking position, and

' the lay b swings back, the side of the next tooth raises the pawl g in opposition to the action of the spring 2', and in order to insure complete disengagement of the said pawl from said wheel the locking lever m which, after the shuttle has again left the shuttle box a, is pressed by the spring 9 against the ring h, is slightly beveled at r (Fig. 3). This beveled face r, owing to the action of the spring 9, presses the pawl g a little farther upward, so that the locking lever m can engage under the ring h and again lock the pawl g.

The device described can be applied, with slight modifications, to any other machine. The oscillating rod e can be given its oscillating movements by any oscillating part of the machine, or, if a crank is used, by any rotating part of the said machine. The rotation of the rod e about its longitudinal axis can be derived from a part moved by the finished work coming out from the machine.

The apparatus itself for counting and registering units of Work or operations performed and the amounts of wages corresponding to the same, consists chiefly (Figs. 4-7) of a mechanism for counting the units of work or working operations, and of a mechanism for counting the wages; the two counting mechanisms work independently of each other and can be brought back to the 0 position independently of each other; the apparatus further comprises a printing apparatus which is operated by setting back the wage counting mechanism, and prints the units of work performed and the amount of wages, on one or more coupons. Well known counting and registering devices have several wage rate drums corresponding to the different denominations of the wage rate and provided with feed parts (teeth or tooth racks) corresponding to the numbers 0*9,

and advancing by means of small transmission wheels the counting wheels of the wage counting mechanism.

According to this invention, the counting and registering apparatus is simplified and improved by arranging the feed parts corresponding to all the denominations of the wage rate, in several concentric circles on a single disk hereinafter referred to as wage rate disk, making one revolution per given number, for instance 1000, units of work or operations, the feed part corresponding to the numbers 1-9 of the different denominations, being shifted relatively to each other on concentric circles of the disk in the direction of rotation of the latter, in such a manner that only one out of all the feed parts of all the denominations can become operative at a time.

On the spindle 2, is mounted, in addition to the ratchet wheel 3, a disk 4 provided with two teeth 5 which engage with a disk 6 provided with teeth, so that the latter disk makes one revolution per 1000 units of Work or operations. The disk 6 is rotatably mounted on a short pin 8 secured to a central partition wall 7 of the frame.

In the construction shown in the drawing, it has been assumed that the rate of wage per 1000 units of Work comprises three denominations, for instance units, tenths and hundredths. In this case, the feed parts corresponding to the numbers 1-9 must be arranged in triplicate. The feed parts advancing the hundredths, tenths and units are all arranged, according to this invention, on the disk 6, namely in three concentric circles 9, 10, 11 (Fig. 4).

The wage rate disk 6 is divided into nine sectors, each of which is provided with three feed parts corresponding to the three place values. In each sector are provided three rectangular slots 12 12 13 shifted relatively to each other in the direction of rotation of the wage rate disk 6 and adapted to receive the feed parts. The latter consist of square pins 13, which project at one end in front of the disk 6 and are provided with heads 14, while the other ends project beyond the disk 6 and are provided with projections 16 having cam surfaces 15. The pins 13 are adjustable in the slots 12 12 13 and are held fast in end positions, one of which corresponds to the operative, and the other to the inoperative position, by springs 17 mounted on said pins, each spring being provided with a projection 18 which can engage with one of the two recesses 19 19 of the disk 6, allotted to each of the slots 12 12 12 If a pin 13 is at that end of its slot, which is nearest to the circumference, of the disk 6, its projection 16 will be situated in one of the circles 9, 10, 11, and the pin will'be in the operative position.

Approximately in the horizontal central line of the wage rate disk 6, opposite the three concentric circles 9, 10, 11 are situated the ends of three double-armed levers 20 20 20 rotatably mounted on a spindle 22 supported in the side walls 1 and 21 of the frame. When during the rotation of the wage rate disk 6 in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 4, the pins 13 which are in the operative position, pass in front of the ends of the levers 20 20 20 they rotate, by means of their cam faces 15, the corresponding lever about the spindle 22 (Fig. 7). To the upper end of each lever 20 20 20 is pivotally secured, by means of a bolt 23, a pawl lever 24 provided at its free end with a hook 25.

The wage counting mechanism consists for instance of five counting wheels Z Z loosely mounted on a spindle 26 supported in the walls 7 and 21. The counting wheel Z indicates the hundredths, the wheel Z the tenths, the wheel Z the units and so on. The three counting wheels specified are connected each to a ratchet wheel 26 advanced by the corresponding one of the three pawl levers 24. On the upper end of each of the levers 20 20", 20 is mounted a spring 27 (Figs. 6 and 7) which keeps the lever 24 in engagement with the ratchet wheel 26. A second spring 28 connected with the up-bent end of each spring 27 presses the corresponding lever against the wage rate disk 6. Each of the counting wheels Z Z*, after a complete revolution, advances the next higher counting wheel in a well known manner by means of a transfer gear wheel 30 mounted on the spindle 29 (Figs. 5 and 7) to the extent of one step.

etween any two sectors of the wage rate disk 6, can be left a large intermediate space for inscriptions indicating place values of the wage rate, that is to say, for instance the words units tenths hundredths If the rate of wages for 1000 units of work or operations amounts for instance to 4.27, four pins 13 of the innermost circle 11, two pins 13 of the circle 10 and seven pins of the circle 0, will be. brought into operative position, while all the other pins will remain in inoperative position. The feed pins 13 brought into operative position, are prefer ably distributed in a uniform manner over the circumference of the circles 9, 10, 11, so that the advance takes place at uniform time intervals. lVith the wage rate 4.27 assumed, at each revolution of the disk 6, the unit wheel Z will be advanced to the extent of four figures, the tenths wheel Z to the extent of two figures and the huudredihs Wheel Z to the extent. of seven figures. Since, as already stated, all the pins are shifted relatively toeach other in the direction of rotation of the disk 6, and consequently are situated on different radii, two

or three pins can neverbecome operative simultaneously. Transfers are therefore never lost by reason of a counting wheel ad vancing the next higher one by means of I the gear wheel 30, and at the same time the said next higher counting wheel being advanced by the wage rate disk.

The counting mechanism for the units of Work or working operations consists of several counting wheels 2 2 2 2 2 loosely rotatable on a spindle 31 and transferring in the usual manner by means of gears 32.

The last counting wheel 2 in the same way as the counting wheels Z Z Z of the wage counting mechanism, is connected to a ratchet wheel 33 on which acts a pawl lever 34 pivoted to a double-armed lever 35 pivotally mounted on the spindle 22 (Fig.- 6).

The levers 34 and 35 are made of the same shape as the levers of the wage counting mechanism. For constructive reasons, the

hub portion of the lever is extended, as

shown in Fig. 5, and that lever is operated by five stops 36 provided on the ratchet 5 wheel 3, so that, after each ten units of work or working operations, the counting wheel 2 is advanced to the extent of one stop. In that way, the units of work are accurately indicated merely by tens. A

.30 greater accuracy could. be obtained by in creasing the number of stops 36 to fifty, but it is not required. The stops 36 gently raise the lever 35 and allow it to drop back under the action of the spring 28 (Fig. 6). The setting of the counting gear to 0 is effected by rotating the spindles 26 and 31 which are mounted in a rotatable manner but are normally prevented from rotating. The two counting mechanism spindles 26 and 31 are each provided, at

the points where the counting wheels are mounted, with transverse passages 37 (Fig. 7) in each of which is adjustably mounted a pin 38 pressed outward by a small spring 39. The outer end of each of the pins 38 is beveled. This beveled end of the pin 38 projects into a correspondingly shaped recess 40 in the hub of the adjacent counting wheel, so that when the counting wheel is rotated, the pin 38 will be forced back into the passage 37 by the cam face of the recess 40. The pins 38 do not therefore affect in any way the rotation of the counting wheels. In order to set one of the counting mechanisms back to zero, the spindles 26 and 31 are rotated once in the direction of the arrow in Figs. 6 and 7. The pins 38 then engage the counting wheels which are in diflerent positions, and set them to zero, in which position all the pins 38-are in the recesses 40. During the turning back of the counting wheels, the levers 24 and the lever 34 slide over the ratchet wheels 26 or over the ratchet wheel 33, the springs 27 yielding. 6 In order to prevent the driving pins 38 from rotating in the passages 37 of the counting mechanism spindles 26 and 31, each of the said pins 38 is provided with a slot 41 (Fig. 7) through which passes a pin 42 with which the corresponding counting 7 mechanism spindle is provided.

The end of the spindle 31 of the counting mechanism for they units of work, is made suitable for putting on a spanner or a crank by means of which the spindle 31 can be rotated. The spindle 26' of the wage counting mechanism is rotated simultaneously with the operation of the printing device connected to the counting gears. The said printing device consists as is usual of a platen 43 supported in slots 44 provided in two levers 45, 46 secured to the ends of a spindle 47. The spindle 47 is mounted in the side walls 48, 49 of the printing device which can be removed from the rest of the 35 apparatus. To the ends of a spindle 50 rotatably mounted in the walls 48, 49, are se- "cured two cams 51, 52 provided with projections 56 which, when the spindle 50 is rotated, act on the projections 53, 54 of the levers 45, and depress the said levers 45, 46 and the platen 43, in opposition to the action of the springs 57, and then suddenly release them, so that the platen 43 strikes against the type wheels of the counting mechanisms. In order to obtain a double registration or recording of the units of work performed, and of the wage amounts, two ink ribbons 58, 59 (Fig. 7) may be provided, the registering strip 60 being is guided in front of, and between, the same. On the spindle 50 are provided two gear segments 61, 62, the former of which drives, by. means of the toothed wheel 63, the feed roller 64 for the registering strip 60, while the other segment engages with a toothed wheel 65 mounted on the spindle 26 of the Wage countin mechanism, but only after the printing has een eiiected by the platen 43. The ratio between the gear 65 and the toothed wheel segment 62 is calculated so that the spindle 26 of the counting mechanism is rotated twice for each revolution of the zero-setting spindle 50. This double revolution of the spindle 26' of the wage counting mechanism to be set to zero, is required, because, as is well known, in case of certain adjustments of the counting wheels (110, 1110, 1100 all the toothed wheels are not brought ack to zero by a single revolution of the spindle 26' of the counting mechanism. The end of the zero setting spindle 50, in the same way as the spindle 31, is made suitable for putting on a spanner or a crank.

The whole device is inclosed in a locked casing (not shown in the drawings) from which only the ends of the indies 31 and 50 project. The said casing is further pro vided with a slot through which the rod e 130 (Figs. 1 and 2) passes into the interior of the casing.

I claim- 1. In a registering attachment for machines having a work-actuated part, the combination, with a register; of mechanism for driving said register comprising a movable olperatmg element, an actuating member t erefor, locking means for normally holding said member in inoperative position, and means associated with said work-actuated part to operate said locking means for releasin said member, when said part is actuate and for permitting it to engage said operating'element.

2. In a registering attachment for machines havin a work-actuated part, the combination, wit a register; of mechanism for driving said register comprising a movable operating element, an actuating member therefor, means for normally holding said member in inoperative position, and a rota and oscillator element associated with sai work-actuate part for releasin said member when said part is actuated an permitting said actuating member to operate.

3. In a registering attachment for machines having a work-actuated part, the combination, with a register; of mechanism for driving said register comprising a pawland-ratchet ear, means for normall locking the paw out of engagement wlth the ratchet, and means associated with said work-actuated part to operate said locking means for releasing said pawl, when said part is actuated, and for imparting an operatin movement to said pawl, whereby said ra et is actuated.

4. In a registering attachment for machines having a work-actuated part, the combination, with a register; of mechanism for driving said register comprisin a awland-ratchet gear, means for norma y olding the pawl out of engagement with the ratchet, a rotary and oscillatory element, said element being associated with said work-actuated part which imparts rotary movement thereto for releasing said pawl, and being associated with an operating part of the machine which imparts an oscillatoryl movement thereto for actuating said aw p 5. In a registering attachment for machines having a work-actuated part, the combination, with a register; of mechanism for driving said register comprising a rotatable operating element, an actuating member therefor having an actuating movement and a shifting movement, said latter movement controlling the effective operation of said member, means for normally holding said member in a shifted, inoperative position, and means associated with said work-actuated part to operate said holding means for releasing said member, whereby the latter is permitted to effectively operate said element, when work actuated part is operated.

6. In an accounting apparatus, the combination, with a register; of mechanism for driving said register comprising a movable operating element, an actuating member therefor, a locking member for normally holding said actuating member in inoperative position and a rod with which said actuating member and said locking member are connected and operated thereby for releasing the latter and operating the former.

7. In an accounting apparatus, the combination, with a register; of mechanism for driving said register comprising a movable operating element, an actuating member therefor, a locking member for normally holding said actuating member in inoperative position, and a rod with which said actuating member and said locking member are connected, said rod being mounted for axial rotary movement to release said looking member and for successive oscillatory movements to operate said actuating mem- 8. In an accounting apparatus, the combination, with a register; of mechanism for driving said register comprising a ratchet wheel, a rocking pawl-holder, a pawl mounted in said holder and adapted to engage said ratchet, a locking member normally engaged with said pawl to hold the same in inoperative position, and a rotatable and oscillat rod ournaled at one end in said holder and having said locking member secured to it, said rod disengaging said locking member from said pawl during its rotary movement to ermit the latter to engage said ratchet, and rocking said holder during its subsequenlt oscillatory movement to operate said paw 9. In an accounting apparatus, the combination, with a series of counting wheels, and transfer devices associated therewith; of mechanism for operating said counting wheels comprising an actuating device associated with each wheel, and a rotary element having a separate series of drivers for each actuating device, said series being arranged in concentric circles on said element.

10. Inan accounting apparatus, the combination, with a series of counting Wheels, and transfer devices associated therewith; of mechanism for operating said counting wheels comprising an actuating device associated With each wheel, and a rotary element having a separate series of relativelymovable drivers for each actuating device, said series being arranged in concentric circles on said element.

11. In an accounting apparatus, the combination, with a series of counting wheels, and transfer devices associated therewith; of mechanism for operating said counting wheels comprising an actuating device associated with each wheel, a rotary element provided with a separate series of radial slots, one for each actuating device, and a driver movable in each slot intoand out of operative position, said series of slots being arranged m concentric circles on said element.

12. In an accounting apparatus, the combination, with a series of counting wheels, a ratchet secured to each and means for effecting transfers; of'mechanism for operating said counting wheels comprising a awl adapted to engage each ratchet, a rocking lever to which each pawl is pivoted, and a rotary element having a separate series of drivers for each lever, said series being arranged in concentric clrcles on said element.

13. In an accounting apparatus, the combination, with a series of counting wheels, a ratchet secured to each, and means for effecting transfers; of mechanism for operatin said counting wheels comprising a paw adapted to engage each ratchet, a rocking lever to which each pawl is pivoted, and a rotary element having lateral driving projections connected thereto for operating said levers, said projections being mounted for movement into and out of operative position. i

14. In an accounting apparatus, the combination, with a series of counting wheels, and transfer devices associated therewith; of mechanism for. operating the last counting wheel comprising an actuating device associated with said wheel, and a rotary element having a plurality of projections thereon for operating said device.

15. In an accounting apparatus, the combination, with a series of counting wheels, and transfer devices associated therewith; of mechanism for operating the last counting wheel comprising a pawl-and-ratchet device associated with said wheel, a lever to which said pawl is pivoted, and a rotary element having a plurality of projections thereon for engagement with said lever to operate the latter and the pawl.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMIL ZIPPER.

Witnesses Josnr RUBASOHE, CUGRAD PUGGER. 

